I'll reply to all the responses at once:
Just about everyone has mentioned the lack of detail in the foreground - and they're right... so I opened up the image again in Photoshop and applied the highlight/shadow tool to lighten up the shadows a bit. Bear in mind that it still might not be enough, as my monitor is quite bright.
Original: http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/cgi-bin/paw.cgi?date=29-May-2004
New: http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/paw/mt_john_2.html
Film was E100SW, with an 81A (warming) filter - no polariser. All that warming almost made up for the -6�C frost that morning.
In reply to Bruce, I took another picture soon afterwards from a slightly different place, using the 15mm lens. It has a far nicer foreground, and because the right hand side was facing closer to the sun the mist on the lake was much easier to see. OTOH the mountain is reduced to a molehill and some other distracting bits crept into the frame.
Thanks for all the positive comments, guys. I feel a bit better about the picture now. I was a little frustrated last night after wrestling with Photoshop trying to make the colours vaguely represent the slide (I have a small light box on the computer desk). Then I converted to sRGB for the web, which screwed up the shadows...
Cheers,
- Dave
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
